Engineering Research Accelerator

The Engineering Research Accelerator, which is a part of the College of Engineering, provides an integrated, coordinated, and college-wide set of services for research incubation, acceleration, and support.

These functions include research administration, corporate partnership, funding opportunities, business support, and research incubation and acceleration activities. The Accelerator enables continuous assessment of current activities and clusters, as well as the identification and fostering of high-potential, cross-cutting, emerging research directions to maintain the College’s competitive advantage.

Proposal submission request

Pre-award development includes budget creation, proposal submission, the development of a broader impacts strategy, and technical and editorial writing assistance. Post-award financial management for research includes financial management of grants and contracts, compliance, and reporting.

Development and fostering of partnerships between researchers and industry, government, or other organizations.

Funding opportunities

Cultivation of funding from industry, government (federal and state levels), organizations, and individual donors; awarding and management of funding opportunities, such as but not exclusive to the Pennsylvania Infrastructure Technology Alliance and College-based seed funding for students and equipment; and management of established named student fellowship programs, including the Dowd, Steinbrenner, and Cohon fellowships.

Broader impacts development and outreach coordination

Broader impacts

For help with broader impacts and outreach coordination, please contact Alicia Angemeer.

Creation and actualization of broader impacts strategies; creation of college-wide opportunities to partner with K-12 populations and create educational modules for existing and new programs; coordination with the university’s Leonard Gelfand Center for Service Learning and Outreach resources.

“There is very little success where there is little laughter.” Andrew Carnegie

“I think great artists and great engineers are similar, in that they both have a desire to express themselves. ” Steve Jobs

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ” Will Durant

“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand” Chinese Proverb

“Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world.” Nelson Mandela

“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” Steve Jobs

“There's nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.” Bill Nye

“At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes—an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new.” Carl Sagan

“Creativity...involves the power to originate, to break away from the existing ways of looking at things, to move freely in the realm of imagination, to create and recreate worlds fully in one's mind—while supervising all this with a critical inner eye.” Oliver Sacks

“I just believe that the way that young people's minds develop is fascinating. If you are doing something for a grade or salary or a reward, it doesn't have as much meaning as creating something for yourself and your own life.” Steve Wozniak